• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    Belkin, which has the capability to end this problem once and for all and to become a hero to tens of people, did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media.

    That was funny.

  • Ravi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    $250 seems like a normal price for Apple peripherals.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah you’re buying not only an apple preheprial but a defacto limited edition, vintage one. No ones gonna charge you less for that once they figure out how to market it.

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      I had one of these. I sold it 10 years ago for about double what they cost new when I bought it. For a period of time they couldn’t give these things away and I’m fairly certain I bought mine open box at MicroCenter.

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        1 year ago

        Funny thing is, I still use it with my Cinema Display, which all works just handy dandy, just one dead pixel.

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    1 year ago

    A big problem with this is that if someone is goodwilled and sells their own adapter on eBay for cheap. Someone else would buy it to sell it at the 250,- price for profit.

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    1 year ago

    I could design and produce a small batch of those adaptors.

    Would anyone be interested in getting a prototype and helping to test it?

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    Wait, you’re saying I can resell my old adp to dvi connectors for up to $250?

    Someone’s about to make an easy grand…

    Hey, what’ll ya give me for some FireWire cables? Ooh, I got an old pre USB keyboard and mouse too!

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    1 year ago

    Both Linux and Apple users make the choice to shoot themselves in the foot, but only the other group constantly whines how much their foot hurts.